OLIVIER CAUX

© Photo: Camille Girard

My inspiration: the body in movement

If you've ever seen a woman carrying a giant ant with a crocodile slung over her shoulder, then you're familiar with Olivier Caux's sculptures!

A biology graduate, Olivier Caux did not intend to be an artist, but, drawing on each experience, he drew inspiration from these cellular, almost organic forms that he studied to create his characters. The volumes are simple, the lines pure and smooth for a quick reading.

Each figure is monochrome and lacks details and expressions, because the mind must not be cluttered and miss the essential: movement. Resin is for him the ideal material, easy to tame, allowing him to give free rein to his imagination, and giving this polished, fluid appearance, a magical material which, from liquid appearance becomes solid.

His effervescent creativity can then come to life. Slender sylphs, with almost serpentine forms, stroll gracefully while a cat leaps, an agile doe dodges a hail of arrows, and a rabbit draws its pistol. Yes, because in the wonderful world of Olivier Caux, it's the rabbits who are armed!

The limbs stretch and are sometimes extended with fins, propellers or fins as if to better cut through the elements and defy time, thus mixing the singularities of human and animal to give life to hybrid and twirling beings.

As if straight out of a Lewis Carroll tale, Olivier Caux's sculptures are whimsical, playful, and refreshing. A light, pop universe, reviving the child in each of us, a burst of joy, a rejuvenating experience.

Written by Agathe Place